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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
HICKORY. TRUNK. 
tree, as the one herewith presented shows its entrance and the 
lower part of its burrow, of the natural size. 
152 . Belted Cerambyx, Cerasphorus balteatus, Degcer. (Coleoptera. 
Cerambycidae.) [Plate 1, fig. 8 ] 
A worm similar to the preceding and boring the trunk in the 
same manner, producing a more flattened long-horned beetle of a 
dusky brown color with a short dull straw-yellow band placed 
obliquely forward of the middle of each wing cover, and with a 
small sharp spine on each side of the thorax and two slender ones 
on the tips of each wing cover. Length 0.60 to 1.10. See Har¬ 
ris’s Treatise, p. 86. 
All our American authors have entered this species under 
Drury’s name cinctus or the still later name garganicus of Fab- 
ricius. Although it was figured and described in Drury’s first 
volume, the name was not given till the appendix of his second 
volume was published. The name given it by Degeer (Memoirs, 
vol. v. p. Ill) thus appears to have preceded all others. 
It is difficult to decide upon the most suitable common name 
for many of our insects. In those instances where the generic 
name is long and difficult of pronunciation by persons not clas¬ 
sically educated, and where this name cannot readily be trans¬ 
lated, I have deemed it better to fall back upon the family name, 
thus following the example of recent English authorities in the 
smaller Lepidoptera and several other groups. 
153 . Discoidal Saperda, Saperda discoidea, Fab. (Coleoptera. Ccramby- 
cidae.) 
A similar but much smaller worm than the foregoing, changing 
to a cylindrical long-horned beetle of a black or blackish-brown 
color, clothed with ash-gray pubescence which is less dense 
above and commonly forms three gray stripes upon the thorax and 
a band or crescent upon the middle of the wing covers, its legs 
being yellow or reddish. Length 0.40 to 0.60. 
154 . Banded Saperda, Oncideres cingulatus, Say. (Coleoptera. Ceramby- 
cidse.) 
A worm similar to the preceding and producing a similar beetle 
but distinguished chiefly by having its wing covers sprinkled over 
with faint tawny yellow dots. Length about 0.60. 
